
Seasonal Key Holder
Middletown, NYSeasonal$16–18.4/hrSeen 2w agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Seasonal Key Holder supports Hot Topic’s store leadership team in delivering customer experiences, meeting sales targets, and running daily store operations. The role includes helping customers with product knowledge, supporting sales-floor and merchandising standards, assisting with opening and closing, and training new Sales Associates. It also involves register operations, stockroom organization, and helping prevent theft.
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Full job description
We’re looking for music and pop culture fanatics to help create the best experience for our customers. As a Hot Topic Seasonal Key Holder, you’ll be a huge part of our success by supporting the store leadership team in providing the best customer experience, ensuring that fellow fans are able to get their hands on the merch they love. You’ll use your fandom knowledge to help train new recruits and ensure their success, while also supporting your Store Manager in daily operations and meeting sales targets.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Provide an amazing shopping experience that will encourage customers to return. They’ll be impressed by your product knowledge, customer experience skills and use of the Force
- Step in and step up when needed. You’ll provide leadership support and help run the store when your Manager gets pulled away
- Understand store sales plan and comp sales goals, and help drive sales by increasing key KPIs: UPT and ADT
- Cover the sales floor zone and ensure that assigned areas are up to visual standards. You’ll also help in the opening and closing of the store
- Work the register; you’ll process sales transactions and use your fandom knowledge to drive add on sales. We’ll need you to also be able to close out the register and communicate and shortages or overages to your Store Manager
- Assist with planogram changes including store map, wall, fixture, & merchandising mix
- Let your voice be heard! You’ll communicate fashion & music trend information to management and respective HQ partners
- While we welcome wizards, we don’t like it when spells are stolen. You’ll work with Store Management to ensure there’s no misuse of spells and wizardry around theft.
- Support the maintenance of the mother ship; you’ll help keep the stock room organized and the store tidy.
- Train and coach new Sales Associates as needed to help them quickly get acclimated to the team
- Any other activities as assigned by your Store Leader
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Previous experience working in a retail environment. If you love music and pop culture, you’re in the right place!
- Superpowers in providing customer service and selling
- A High School Diploma or GED equivalent
- Avenger like collaboration and communication skills, as well as Captain America-like leadership
- The usual retail stuff: able to stand and walk around during scheduled hours, reaching for merch using a ladder, step stool and pole. You’ll also have to be able to move around boxes of awesome merchandise that may weigh up to 50 pounds
How this job compares
Set against the 3,752 open Retail jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$16–18.4/hr
- New York median$17–20/hr151 hourly ranges
- US median$17–19/hr1,775 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $17.20/hr, is 7% below the New York median midpoint ($19/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Retail hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 198 open Retail jobs in New York and 3,752 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- BoxLunch & Hot Topic (this employer)45 open
- Acosta Group7 open
- The Estee Lauder Companies7 open
- Experience
- Retail postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (970 postings).
- Education
- 151 of the 3,752 open Retail jobs (4%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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